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Michael Shermer Quotes

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

Michael Shermer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
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Birth: September 8, 1954

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Eyes Think Brains Video Blank Our

It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.

Steven Heighton

Age Character View Point Of View

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

World Small Small Town Standards Up

We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

Joyce Carol Oates

Childhood Plants Soil Without Take

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!

I Am Me Back Mad Remembering Bring

To put it mildly, nothing can be turned and worn inside out with greater ease than one's notion of social justice, public conscience, a better future, etc.

Future Justice Better Social Justice

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

Great Care Help Firefighters Need

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

Yourself Think You Mad Know Gone

I love Matt Bomer.

Chord Overstreet

Love I Love Matt

For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.

Chris Moneymaker

I Can Play Want Poker Get Most

I'm simply here to say guns should be owned by responsible people, and there should be high tests and a high bar to prove your responsibility.

Responsibility People Say Prove High

A guy that I was supposed to face - and I think that he was just plain downright scared to get in the ring with me because he was one of those guys that was on top and saw a huge threat in Brock Lesnar at the time - that's 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin.

Time Me Cold Face Think Stone

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.

Life Child Long Back Will Follow

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